Bair, Patrick
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author David Groom (? - ), whose Faster! Faster! (1950) is a Dystopian fable with an sf flavour in which representatives of three classes, caught on a train which goes on for ever, must work out their destinies; its abstract nature differentiates the tale from his later work, though Gargantua Falls (1951) places very similar Satirical points in an only partially fantasticated America. The Tribunal (1970) satirizes a Near-Future revolution in Italy. As David Gurney, he wrote tales with a more popular slant, like The "F" Certificate (1968), which treats of a violent UK to come, and the Conjurers sequence of horror novels [see Checklist below]; his books as by Gurney were usually published as by Bair in America. [JC]
David Groom
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works
- Faster! Faster! (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1950) [hb/Raymond]
- Gargantua Falls (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951) [hb/nonpictorial]
- Open Your Hand and Close Your Eyes (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1964) [hb/Christopher Macartney Filgate]
- The Tribunal (London: Macdonald, 1970) [hb/]
as David Gurney
- The "F" Certificate (London: Bernard Geis, 1968) [hb/]
- The Necrophiles (London: Bernard Geis, 1969) [hb/]
- The Conjurers (London: New English Library, 1972) [Conjurers: hb/]
- The Demonists (New York: Manor Books, 1977) [vt of above: Conjurers: pb/]
- The Devil in the Atlas: A Study of Modern Satanism (London: New English Library, 1977) [Conjurers: hb/]
- The Evil Under the Water (London: New English Library, 1977) [pb/]
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